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lions i and that on every cockade the Initials of . our So&creign's name shall be affixed, to certify move strongly the object of this distinguished mark o f llonour -.;— : proclaiming,-4the same tune, that all persons not wearing cockades of the above descrlp tion within eight, days after publication of this Ediet, will he deemed suspicious, and shall be punished accordingly. " en at Porto Rico, this 24th day ofJuly, 1808. ~(Signed) " MONTES." MAILS. , ARRIVED-2 Gottenburgli, I Dublin. Doz—t Gutter.- burgh, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - -65 H I Omnium - ; dis. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1808. Dispatches were this morning received from Sir SAAJNIAREZ and Mr. THORNTON. They ware. brought by Captain MARTIN, of the Im pluca. ble,' who distinguished himself so much - in the late aelion with the Russian Fleet. The sub stance of these Dispatches have not transpired ; hilt from tiie circumstance of Mr. THORNTON being on board the Admiral's Ship, we are inclined to I; that a Negotiation is going on for the surrender of Lile.Russian.Fleet. , • t:)tri The impression which has been made upon the in general by the answer given by His 'MA -3- ,TY to the City Address, is highly honourable to ti 32 national charaaer, and we are pertuatlect_that noshing but the rancour of party can see.pny thing to condemn in that answer. Though, in fad, the Mdress, in substance and in detail, was insulting to the RoyarCharaeter, inasmuch as it evidently con- veyed a distrust of His MAJESTY'S zeal for the pa-` Canal honour and pure regard for justice , ; yet the • answer is marked by a dignified spirip / c 713 re • bake it implies is of the most temper4te i and‘ delicate natur.e. We animadverted nsterday:-upon several passages in the Address which shew that it was the _offspring of party, and we cannot but feel much surprise as well as regret that the lead ing men in th City, whose loyalty and good sense save justly rased them in public esteem, should of resolutely have opposed the terms of the Address, however they might have been ensnared snto a belief that such an appeil to the Throne was necessary. The objea of the Address, according to its own express statement, was not to inquire whe ther there might be grounds to justify the Convention of Cintrawhether it was not a compaa rather to be admired than. condemned, under circumstances which are-not yet known, but which will, of course, ke fully developed. No—the Address presumes that the Convention was "humiliating and degrading,". jhat it was " dishonourable and unprecedented," and it requests His TAlajesty to institute " such an in ' quiry as will lead to. the discovery and punishment" of its authors, by whose miscondrthTand incapacity, it affirms, before inquiry, the cause of the Coun try and its Allies has been so shamefully sacrificed a" Is this liberality ? is this candour ? is this a requisi tion conformable to the mild principles of our pena] :juriyruthmatt, which render Great Britain the ad. vriration of all other States ? Wai the Sovereign a 'thcse I:cairn - 4, who presides over a Constitution found. e(1 in mercy as well is justice, to imit.:Le headlong punishrkizt, while it pre e:lds to solicit inquiry? His MA,IESTy feels for the nr of all wI4 are entrusted with situations of national responsibility, as well as for the ho nourOf the nation itself ; and never could it be sup- iiOu Tosed that so gracious a Monarch would coincide in .huch a rash condemnation of men who had an ar- Iluom duty to perform, whose local• knowledge must ,::ice enabled theM to judge of the policy of the iileamire in ru,%itiori much better than the resi- tietic Citizens of London, whatever may be their ' 1 ;-ood sesise; and however respeaable their judg- meat in all matters that belong to their own im mediate province, Sorely, if these men were anxious for an inquiry, it would have been but de .cnt in thern to inisr that his MAJCSTY must have been full as anxious. as themselves, upon a subjeet interesting and important, and, therefore, an ap- ;,peal to him on thts occasion was not only officious .nod ill-achiSeJ, but absolutely disrespe&ful. Be sides, the Address contains one passage notoriously :' , C:anral . y to the fact, for it states, among one'of the great crimes of the Authors of the Convention, " the guafrantee and safe conveyance" of the French plunder in Portugal, though in a Proclamation, signed ay the French General KELL,ERMAN, as well as by the British Officer, such a guarantee was po- . sitively disavowed. fiere, then, the' Addfess asserts an absolute falsehood in the fade of Mnfasf`v and here we mast repeat our surprise and regret that some of the leading men of the City, whosecha rafters we hold in great esteem, should have suf.' fdred such a glaring talse'hood to escape their notice, • and should have joined in carrying such an hasty, construEled, and fallacious Address to the throne. We earnestly advise the resp'eelable charaCters we allud to, to refle& seriously upon the measure into which the suffered themselves to be subdueJ, and to endeavour to compensate for their errors, by a determined op position to those who may attempt to involve them still deeper into the toi►s of party. The business of the ConVentiun, by the declaration of His MAJESTY, as well as, by the obvious necessity of the case, is to undergo a proper Inquiry, where . all possible zeal and industry will be employed to ascertain the true principles upon which it was founded ; and there fore to bring forward motions in the mean time to excite prejudice, and to agitate the public mind, is to betray a malevolent spirit of party, and not to ma nifest a due regard for justice and the honour of the sr,Lcr.: Q, UIS DICIRE . rALSUNI AUDZAT ? Country. Yesterday aCabinet Council assembled at the'Fo reign Office at halt after une, which was not dis solved until half after four o'clock. The Members present _were—the Duke of. PORTLAND, the Earl of WESTMORELAND, Mr. CANNING, Lords HAwEES BURY and CASTLEREAGH, Mr. PERCEVAL, Lord MULGRAVE, and Earl BATHURST. After the Coun- broke up, Mr. TURNER, the Messenger, was sent off with the result of their deliberations to his Ma jesty, at Windscir. - A requisition, it is stated, has been signed by some house-keepers of Westminster, calling upon the High Bailiff to convene a Meeting of the Eleetors, for the purpose of addressing his Majesty upon the subject of the late Convention in Portugal. • But as it has been announced from the highest authority that an inquiry is to take place, such a Meeting of course is unnecessary. It after what has - passed, any persons should persist in calling the Meeting, it will not be difficult to ascertain the motives by which they are actuated. Extra6.l of a Letter from a Gentleman at Fal mouth, dated on Sunday morning, Oct. g.—" On Sunday morning early, the Expedition which had been detained by contrary winds at Falmouth, got • under way, and never perhaps . did one sail from England better equipped in every respe&. It con sists chiefly of the 3d brigade of Guards, and the "211 Battalions of distinguished _Regiments, who are anxious to themselves not at all inferior to their companions in the Ist Battalions, in ',reaping laurels of the enemy. Their Commander in Chief, Sir D. Baird, is one in whom they have implicit confidence. The Medical Staff is particularly well sele&ed, and refleas the greatest credit on' the Surgeon-General. There was one general expression of joy and satis faaion when the signal was made 'for sailing. They are convoyed by Captain SCEOBIBERG, in the Loire Frigate, attended by three others." Letters from Madeira weve received in town yes terrJay, dated 30th August. On the 17th of August the 3d Regiment (the Butt's) sailed from that Island for Portugal, with Major-General BERESFORD, on board the Undaunted Frigate, Captain MALING.— The t ith regiment were - - expected soon to follow ; and the garrison and forts pt : s .4ac t ltira were to b oc cupied by veterans from Gibraltar.—The oet'vcard bound Africa, Brazils, ald West India . Coavo - ys had touched at the Island, and sailed for their desti nation. - Major, now Sir GORE OUSLEY, is the second son of the late much respected RALPH OUSLEY, ESq. of Limerick, and, we understand, that this mark of distinction from his lioverei , n has been granted in consideration and approbation of his conduct in India, during a residence of seventeen years, the latter part of which he 'served as Aid-de-Camp and Confidential Secretary to his Highness the NABOB VIZIER, Hereditary Prince_ of Oude, at Luctiow, with the countenance, . approbation, and esteem of the Governor-General of India, the Most Noble the Marquis WELLESLEY., We 'understand that Sir A. WELLESLEY wellleave town in a few days for I;r..land, to return, to his Mi. nisterialfunetions in Country; and that after having arranged the kusioess of his office, he will proceed to Spain in !pis military capacity. General FERGUiOI3 will take a trip to Scotland be fore he resumes the coMmand of his Brigade in Spain, but his -stay in his native country will be very short. A. very large sleet of Merchantmen have arrived from Stockb:ilm and Gottenburgh ; they sailed from the Litter place on the 30th ultimo; tAienty4tve are bound to Hull, at which place two of the Fleet arr rived on Tuesday last. The whole convoy consists of, about 100 sail.; many of the Ships are from the ports of Revel and other Russian ports, and have on board valuable cargoes of the produce of that country. No official detail has yet been received at the Ad miralty, of the brilliant a&ion of the Seahorse. We have been favoured with the following extra& of a letter from an Officer of that Frigate, which gives a very modest and chataaeristic account of the engage ment. " MALTA, JULY 31.—Fortune has at length smiled on the Old Horse—l arrived here _five days ago in the liedera Zaj'er, a Turkish frigate of ifty two guns, whiCh we captured in the Archipelago, .after an . AEtion of four hours, on the night of the sth inst. , There was a smaller frigate of 2t guns .and - two mortars, which went down during the ac tion, at least she has not since been heard of, and she was lost sight of by us very suddenly, a few minutes after we had been engaging her as near as the two Ships could lie together. They had also a galley full of men, which,escaped. Our loss has been,.miraculously small, but five killed and ten wounded, most of the latter not dan;- gerously. Our ship has suffered considerably, many of our guns being unserviceable, we shall be detain ed here perhaps three weeks getting to rights, after which I think it probable that we shall resume our station, and very possibly catch another.'-':. The authors of The Anti-Jacobin Examiner, which once mate so great a figure in town, and - the wit and humour of which will preserve it from the usual fate of occasional productions,- manifestedthe spirit of - prophecy in its ludicrous song ,on the. University of Gottingen, the members of which are now the vittiMs or those revolutionary principles which they appeared to be too, ready to patronize. • A Beef was taken up, on the 3d instant, in the garden of W. N. HART, Esq. Edinondstiato Cottage, near Cranborne, the rooLof which weighed I °lbs. and was ELlee quarters of a yard iu circumference. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTII, OCT. 12.—Arrived the Hamburgh 'Ship Johannah, Capt. L. C. LAtturr, from Oporto, ;den with wine, bound to Limerick; on the 2d inst. she fell in with the Juliana Letter of Marque, of Liverpool, from Surinam, bound to London, who took, away the ship's papers, &c. Same day she fell in with the Mutine Sloop of War, who detained and sent her to this Port, on account of having no papers on board. Arrived La Fleche Sloop of War from a cruize. The Lilly Sloop of War, bound to Madeira, is put back by contrary winds. Arrived the Cheerful Cutter, from Gibraltar, with dispatches; sailed thence the 20th ultimo; brings no news. PORTSMOUTH, .00T. 13.—Arrived his Majesty's Ship Pluto from Lisbon. Arrived the Endeavour, HARLING, and Hero, THOMPSON, from ,Sunderland ; also the Benson, Wm.'s, from Quebec. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Diomede for Guernsey. - The Expedition at St. Helen's, it is reported, will remain till more Cavalry are embarked. DOVER - , OCT. 13.—Arrived the following Ships from Jamaica, part of the West India Fleet of 18 sail :—Centurion, DOUGLAS; David Shaw, BUR- , NELL ; Comet, M‘PoNALD; Robust, LANDELL ; William Pitt, ARTHUR; Brook Watson, HOLMES ; Friends, BURBECK. _ DEAL, OCT. 1 3.—Arrived the Kingston, BENSON; Comet, ; and the Pursuit, MILLER, from Ja maica; several more of the same Fleet are coming round the South Foreland under convoy of his Ma jesty's Brig Hunter. Sailed the Generous Planter, Gallant Schooner, Annabella, Minerva, and Harlequin, out ward-bound Vessels, ,to the Westward. Came down from the aiverthe Diana, PARK and the Governor Dodswell, CLEAVELAND, for the South Seas, and ,remain with the rest of the Ships as per last. , . SHEERNESS, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Gallant Gun brig. Passed by for the Downs two East India Ships, and a great number of homeward-bound West India men, -for the River. Arrived his Majesty's Ship Sarpen, from the North Sea. Upwards of a hundred Sail have passed the Noie, for .the-River. GREENOCK, OCT. 10.—During Thursday 2nd Fri day it blew very hard from the S.W. and early upon , Saturday morning checked suddenly round to N.W. when the storm increased, and continual all day.— We are happy to say that the dainage sustained by the shipping' here was inconsiderable. The Sloop Jolly Major was driven upon the new East Quay, where she now lies high , and dry, withotit being , materially damaged. The Ship Mars carried away the pall she was fastened, to at the East Quay, and, ran aground at the open shore ; she was got off sonni after, and but little injured. The Shannon and a coasting Brig are ashore at Garvel Point. The Loyal Sam was ran foul of by the Ship Ann, and hgd her starboard rails tore away. The Ship Columbus got foul of the Ann Grant, and carried away her sprit sail-yard by the bolt-sprit. A Gabart went upon the Bank, and soon after hoisted a signal.of distress; when a boat's crew put off and relieved her. LIVERPOOL, OCT. N.—Early on Saturday morn ing last came on a most tremendous gale of wind, which continued during the whole of the day and chief part ,of the following night. Most of the Ves sels in the River parted their cables or dragged their anchors. His Majesty's Ship the Princess was driven from her station, but brought up above the Slyne, where she rode out the storm in safety. The Ariel, BORROWDAILE ; 'George, PICRTHALL ; Neptune, HART ; and Union, —; got - on shore, but were afterwards got off' with little damage, and are now in dock. '1 he Hannah, LIGHTLEY, got on shore, near Jackson's Mill, and filled with water— crew saved. The Princess of Wales, KENNEDY, is on shore near the North Battery, her main and mizen masts cut away; and the Ship a wreck—three of the crew narrowly escaped a watery grave. • The Alexander, WADE, that sailed on Friday, put back, broke her cables near the Slyne, and is totally lost, about five miles up the River—orew saved. The Apollo, BELLIN, is lost upon the N. W. Spit of Hoyle—Captain BELLIN and two boys drowned— the remainder of the crew (eleven in number) were floated on shore on the masts and rigging, arid I saved. The Pletcher, FLETCHER, for Eieligoland, is lost, with all her crew, near North Moels. The shore, in this latter place, was covered with fragments of wood, old rope, pieces of iron, ifirc. Coffee was sprinkled on the sand as if it had been sown there — The people of the neighbourhood were on Sunday gathering up and-carrying off what they could lay hold of, as if it had been their own. When stne of these persons' was asked by a Gentleman who. went to view this scene of desolation what was become of the crew, he replied, with the greatest indifference, " they are all shut (lost)." A Brig, wit!, crates on board, is towed into Roy lake by a Fishing coat ; her name is unknown. .No person found on board, except one dead body lashed to the rigging. A Swedish Brig is wa9bed op to high-water mark, near Hoylake. Ali hands perished ; both anchors to her baWs, and a new cable—Stintii)sed to be the Drei Braden, from Calmar. The Juno, —, hence to London,, is on shore above Gargton, with all liermasts gone. Thet Phillipsburgh, LIFFINGWELL, hence to New wps driven on shore on Saturday, with the loss of anchors and cables, bat is now in the King's Dock—cargo not damaged, but will be landed, to have the Ship repaired. Te Catharine, DAVIES, from Sligo to this•port, is on shore at Whitehaven, and full. of water—cargo landing. During the gale, a Boat, with two men in her, was upset in the River; one of them was saved, the other unfortunately. drowned. _ _ Tllese are the only particulars we have been able to 'olle6t ; but as no intelligence is arrived from the Weldh Coast, and from other parts of the Island, we fear we shall have the painful task to record fresh disasters in our next. To the Sloop Plover and Brig Pilote, for the Capture of the Swedish Convoy, at No. tB, Clement's Inn, every Tues day and Friday, for three years. To the Leander, for the Capture of the Volunteer, at No. ta, Upper Thames-street, on the tzth inst. and every day toe three months. To the Sloop Lark, for the Capture of the French Brig La Cecile, on board, at Portsmouth, on the tzth, and at No. Cleinent's Inn, every Tuesday and Friday for three months. _ _ To the Gun-brig Bold. for the Capture of the Frederick' Wilhelm, and of the Coriceieao Minas, on board the Bold, the 12th inst, and at No. 18, Clement's Inn, every Tuesday and Friday, for three months. Tu the Sloop Ring Dose, for the Capture of the Danish Privateer Torden Skiold, by D. Th.Whytt, Esq. at the Bri.. tannia Colfee-house, Leith, the 24 the same place. To the brig Hunter, for the Capture of the Schooner Pro sperity, and cargo, on board, on the Hunter's arrival in Port, and atter at No 3, Phil put-lane. To the East ludia Company's armed Ship Swallow, for the Capture of the Dutch Ships at or near St. Henna, on the xoth Nov. at the East , Imlia House, on the first Monday ill. .:N inst. Sand afterwards at every month for three years. I'o the Gun-brig Locust, for the Capture of .the Marengo and Belle Poule, at No. 22, Arundel -street, for three months. IA singular circumstance in Natural History oc* curred lately in the garden of Mr. Studholme, of St. Nicholas, near Carlisle :—An apple-tree some time ago lost its leaves, apparently by a blight—soon after which it was observed to put forth fresh blossoms, and it is now bearing fruit, the second time this , . . season. In the garden of Thomas Royle, farmer, at Cai+ rington, in Cheshire, is a nee which has this year produced apples 'Of a most extraordinary size ; ono of which measured 12i inches in circumference, and the other two 12 inches each. The whole three put together measured one yard, one inch, and three quarters; and weighed two pounds, three ounces and a quarter. The exposure of 'flax or hemp to the frost and . snow materially facilitates the dressing of it, by de 'stroying the glutinous matter which unites the . _ fibres ;and it is now established, that keeping these plants a second winter will reduce by one half - the labour which will attend the dressing of them the first year. It is recommended that, after steeping , the plants be either spread to the a6tion of the frost and air, or placed in bundles, on their ends, and left in that state till the spring=The better Lbe r- o ' 4 (hied, the less will be the waste in dressing. On Friday se'n night Mr. Roodhouse, of Stamford, carrier, for a wager of thirty guineas, started from that place to walk to London, a distance of go miles , in 26 hours. The wager was made in a convivial party, and Mr. Roodhouse, without having had any preirious exercise it: walki'tg, set off immediate ly. In Cunuiugton Lane, miles f otn Stamford , he unfortunately sprained his uncle.; tie, notwit: standing, reached Hatfield at - three o'clock an the next afternoon, but was there obliged to give in . , although he hal seven hours of the given tim e good to perform the remaining 19 miles. He w as in good spirits, and could have won the wager easily had he not fret wit h he accident. A Letter from Kingston, Jamaica, of Aug. 10, says—" Every thing here is in a flourishing state since the arrival of our . new Governor, the Duke of MANCHESTER. The measures adopted by his Grace give general .satisfattion ; and his agreeable lIINIV ners, with the uprightness of ' his condud, rendet him a favourite with the Island." So extremely cold was the weather on Ther s'da .l o , se'nnight, that the icicles hung from the h(ios es ',. l. some parts of the town of Shaftesbury, upward''' . 0 ' foot in length; a pump in the Close of S.truto wa s frozen—a circumstance very unusual in the i 17 " 111 of September. • • On Tuesday'se'nnight if young man, 'named Da niel Greenwell, clerk to Robert Waldie, Esq. of Car' lisle, being on his return from Brampton, where he ill, a b n e d e n e o n n d eahunting a votir ed to cross p ar t y , t a b tittle' d hi m i 17lof:rdteark taken sit unobserved, when he tell suddenly backwar d, and broke both his arms. The agottY arising from' so dreadful a misfortune soon rendered him insensi ble, and in this situation he bad lain upwardS of nill e hours, when he was discovered by Robert Wil,'` )l :: Esq. of Carlisle, whose dog would not pasS the butcOntinued to bark,, though called several tittles by his master.—He now lies in a dangerous stale', t 'Sunday was married, at Bedminster, in the raids of divine- service, and in presence of ' a n atrierou s congregation, James. How, of Othery,, aged•7B, • I° ' Martha Wilcox, of Bath, aged 22. The bride iot stantly became a mother, grandmother, and gre 3 grandmother to a numerous progeny. • CANINE MADNESS.--About six weeks since; Child, three years . , old, the daughter of respetw._, ,parents, in Windmill-street, was sent to Sorrl e ` i ' le Town, on a visit to a relation: • On her waY s o received a bite by a mad dug, and was afterwaro dipped is salt water, with as much expediti° ll possible. This precaution induced the 11 114a1) ; t .parents to suppose their infant would avoid tie hydrophobia ; but the child; was seized With 1 , 0 usual symptoms on Saturday last, and on Surel 3 Y s expired. A short time preVioes to her death sbe t° covered her senses. toA young man was killed yesterday; in the gate. to leading to Fresh-wharf; by a cart driven in a 111 ' w way, which crushed him to death against a Po t ' • Tuesday, some bricklayers repairing a halls e• es,, Titeliborne-street, Piccadilly, through earelesso let fall a spade or shovel, which unfortunately to on the head 01 a poor boy who happened to be P oi ,„.. ing at the time, and cut him in so dreg d ` l , ► w ith ner, that he was,sent to St. George's sitisi' little hopes of his recovery. 1 i